Nikita Dunovits-Ferrier
is a filmmaker and artist from Perth/Boorloo, Western Australia. In 2017 she graduated with a Bachelor of Film and Television from Swinburne University of Technology. Her graduate short film, El Niño, premiered at the St Kilda Film Festival (2018) and then went on to screen at Cinefest Oz (2018) and win Best Drama at the 2019 Noosa International Film Festival and then show at the 2020 Melbourne Women in Film Festival and 2020 Setting Sun Film Festival (Winner Best Emerging).
Nikita has also worked in the film and TV industry in the art department as a set dresser and props standby assistant on films such as Blueback ( Dir. Rob Connolly) How to Please a Woman (Dir. Renee Webster) and Sweet As (Dir. Jub Clerk).
In the art world, Nikita was selected as one of ten artists to take part in the 2023 Perth Festival Artist lab in which she was mentored over the course of one month during the festival. You can read about the Lab here.
She is currently in the final year of the Masters of Arts Screen (Directing) at the AFTRS in Sydney and is in post production on her graduate short film a dream about a horse .
